HTML Tidy

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HTML Tidy

Original author(s)	Dave Raggett
Developer(s)	HTML Tidy Advocacy Community Group
Stable release	5.8.0[1] / 16 July 2021; 2 years ago (16 July 2021)
Repository	github.com/htacg/tidy-html5.git
Written in	BSD, Linux, macOS, Microsoft Windows
Type	Library, Console Application
License	W3C Software License
Website	www.html-tidy.org

HTML Tidy is a

that provides HTML Tidy's features.

History

HTML Tidy was developed by Dave Raggett^[2] of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Later it was released as a SourceForge project in 2003 and managed by various maintainers.^[3]

In 2012, the project was moved to GitHub,^[4] and maintained by Michael Smith, also of W3C,^[5] where HTML5 support was added.

In 2015, the HTML Tidy Advocacy Community Group (HTACG) was formed for management and development of HTML Tidy as a W3C Community Group.^[6][7]

HTML Tidy source code is written in

repository, or in binary packages for multiple operating systems from its GitHub Releases repository.

Features

Examples of corrections to invalid or poorly constructed HTML:

• Reorder mixed-up tags
• Complete missing or mismatched end tags
• Add missing syntax elements (some tags, quotes, etc.)
• Report proprietary HTML extensions
• Change layout of markup to a predefined style
• Transform characters from some encodings into HTML entities

See also

• Comparison of HTML parsers

References

External links

• HTML Tidy Project Page
• Current Source Code
• Official Binary Releases
• HTML Tidy Project Page (legacy)
• HTML Tidy service Was an online version of HTML Tidy at the W3C. The W3C online tidy service was decommissioned on 29 November, 2017.